Top 25 Consent Quotes of 38 - Page 2

Fate does not seek our consent.

Terry Goodkind

Fate, Doe, Consent

Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.301, Head of Zeus

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.

M. L. Stedman

Consent, Mutual

M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

Lord Byron

Whispering, Littles, Consent

Don Juan canto 1, st. 117 (written 1818)

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

Euripides

Mean, Excellence, Consent

Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

Robert Breault

Philosophical, Long, Consent

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

Thomas Browne

Fancy, Consent, Seems

Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.126

What is government but theft by consent?

Scott Lynch

Government, Theft, Consent

Scott Lynch (2013). “The Republic of Thieves”, p.110, Del Rey

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

Samuel Johnson

Spirit, Limbs, Consent

Samuel Johnson, Robert ARMITAGE (1850). “Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death. By the author of “Dr. Hookwell,” etc. [Robert Armitage].”, p.459

The order of things consents to virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Order, Virtue, Consent

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (1989). “The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.31, University of Missouri Press

Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Heart, Stolen, Consent

The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent.

Jean-Paul Sartre

People, Nervous, Consent

1961 Preface to Franz Fanon Les Damne s de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth,1967, translated by Constance Farrington). Tsitsi Dangarembga uses this sentence to supply both epigraph and title of her1988 novel Nervous Conditions.